A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX

BY JACQUES-MICHEL LEMAIRE (FL. 1722-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1725/1726, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF CHARLES CORDIER 1722-1727

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A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
BY JACQUES-MICHEL LEMAIRE (FL. 1722-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1725/1726, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF CHARLES CORDIER 1722-1727
crescent-shaped bloodstone box mounted à jour within reeded gold borders, the sides of polished gold, the domed cover with false rocaille thumbpiece, the hinged base with a slightly raised similar thumbpiece that opens the box
2 5/8 in. (65 mm.) long

Provenance

with J. Kugel, Paris.

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Lot Essay

A similar bloodstone box by this goldsmith and dated 1730 is in the Louvre, illustrated by S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 151. Another box by this goldsmith and given by Louis XV to the Grand Master of Malta, is in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, illustrated by A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London 1966, pl. 136.

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